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A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom from Paul Markel: Professional Educator and Trainer, Amazon Best-Selling Author, United States Marine, Television and Radio Host.
Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset to help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being.Read more »

A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom from Paul Markel: Professional Educator and Trainer, Amazon Best-Selling Author, United States Marine, Television and Radio Host.
Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset to help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being.Read Less

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MM129 - What to Leave In and What to Leave Out

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Education and Experience are vital to separate not only fact from bullcrap but for using your time wisely and effectively. (Thank you, Kevin, for the topic suggestion) If you like the show, please check out our Official Morning Mindset Merchandise! Episode Transcription [INTRO] ♫ Trenches by Pop Evil ♫ *Alex* Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator & trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being. Please welcome your host; Paul G. Markel. *Professor Paul* Hello and welcome back to Morning Mindset and I'm excited to record this particular episode of Morning Mindset because the topic suggestion came from one of you. Yes, that's right. I have a wife who also is my email sorting person, and she sourced through the info@morningmindsetpodcast.com box. - Yes, she sorts the inbox and lets me know. Now most of the stuff that comes in the inbox, I will have to admit to you is Chinese spam, but after we sort through all the Chinese spam every once in a while, we come across something that is actually valuable and that may have value to other people besides myself and the person who wrote the email. - That's a very, I want to let you guys know that if you want to ask a question, and you want the response on the radio or on the podcast when we choose questions or topics to discuss on our shows. What we have to do is we have to look at it, because we get a lot of questions, we have to look at it and say “Will this benefit only the person who asked the question, or will this topic or question probably benefit a wide variety or a wide range of people?” - Will other people benefit besides just the person who asked the question? For instance, you know, and I've used it before people say if you write me a letter saying, “Where can I go to get a hunting license in Oregon?” Alright, that's pretty specific, right? I mean I live in Eugene, Oregon. Where can I go to get a hunting license? If I answer that question on the podcast, very few people will actually get benefit from that. But if I ask if, for instance, this one today, it's titled “What to leave in and what to leave out” and thank you, Kevin, for the topic suggestion. - Kevin wrote us a letter and he said that, like the old Bob Seger song the lyric, from the old Bob Seger song and I believe it was the song was “Against the wind” and one of the things he said “What to leave in and what to leave out” or “what to leave out and what to leave in” I'm not sure which way he phrased it. But the fact that matter is, is Kevin said there's so much available to us. There's so much information. - Podcasts, YouTube channels, app television, radio shows, books, there is so much available to the consumer today, instantly. I mean it's available instantly thanks to the miracle of the internet and iTunes and all that jazz. How does a person know what to leave in and what to leave out? How do you know what to spend your time on? - Now I talked about this subject previously on my other show, people will ask things like “How do I know that the instructor that I'm going to take a class from is a good instructor?” or “How do I know that that school is a good school?” or “How will I know that this class is a valuable class?” and I say well the truth of the matter is, if you're a complete and total novice, if you have almost no education or experience in that field, you're not going to know. - Let's say you want to become an automobile mechanic and you want to go to a class or school or you know a seminar, or what have you about Transmissions or what have you. If you've never done that, you're not gonna know whether the class you just went to or the class you're going to is the best one available or the worst one available. - You're not going to know if the instructor is the best instructor or if he's just faking it to get by, because you have no basis for understanding. So what you're going to have to do, I mean and this is how humans have always been, but I think the confusion that the internet has created with all of these podcasts and blogs and YouTube channels and you know all the information that's available instantly on demand people become overwhelmed. - They don't know where to start. No, it's really no more difficult than this, the more education and experience that you have. The easier it will be to separate fact from bullcrap. Education is training, education can become from reading books education can come from watching videos. You say we have if I watch a video I'm not going to know. - Well, you don't just watch one, you don't just take one class and of course, experience is putting that education, that training, all that information that you've gathered that skill experiences putting it into practice. Yeah, I'm out here in Wyoming and every fall people come to Wyoming from outside of the state so they can hunt our big game. - They hunt the antelope and the mule deer they hunt the elk. Sometimes the Moose, and they come from other places and they're coming here to work with our guides, our hunting guides. Why do they work with our hunting guides? Why don't they just do it on their own? Well, they work with our hunting guides, because not only do our hunting guides have a lot of education, but they have a tremendous amount of experience so they can separate pretty much immediately the fact from the bull crap. - Experience, actually putting your education into practice. I was talking to someone recently who is a professional fishing guide, and he said that people would show up he'd been guiding, you know fishing trips for almost 30 years, but people would show up and they had read an article in a magazine, and so they believed that because they read an article in a magazine, that they knew what was going to happen and how it should happen. - They didn't have any experience. They just had some information, so if you want to be able to separate fact from bullcrap, and also in addition to separating the fact from the bullcrap to figure out how to invest your time wisely and effectively. You need to continuously gain education and continuously gain experience the more education and the more experience you have the better able you will be to discern what is worth your time, and that takes time. - I know you're like “No, I just want you to give me a simple, easy answer.” I can't give you a simple easy answer, the simple easy answer would be to listen to everything I say, read everything I write, that would be the simple answer. But I can't do that. I can't just give you a simple answer. So when it comes to “What to leave in and what to leave out”, the more experience you gain, the more education and information you have about that topic the easier it will be for you to decide to realize what is fact and what is bullcrap, what is a waste of your time, and what is a valuable use of your time? - I hope by this time we are, according to my show notes, this is episode 129. Man, we are cranking these out. I hope by the time you've gotten here, that you've made the decision that Morning Mindset is worth your time, it's worth leaving in. So thank you again to Kevin for that topic suggestion, and if you would like to, leave a topic suggestion, you can go to MorningMindsetPodcast.com and follow the instructions. You're smart people you're educated, you know what to do. Alright. I am your host Paul Markel, and I will talk to you again. Real soon. [OUTRO] ♫ Trenches by Pop Evil ♫ *Alex* Thank you for spending time with us today. To get show notes, submit a topic request, for more from your host Paul G. Markel, visit MorningMindsetPodcast.com. That’s MorningMindsetPodcast.com. Please leave a review of this podcast on your favorite podcast player, we appreciate your time & effort, and we look forward to reading your honest feedback.Read more »

Education and Experience are vital to separate not only fact from bullcrap but for using your time wisely and effectively. (Thank you, Kevin, for the topic suggestion) If you like the show, please check out our Official Morning Mindset Merchandise! Episode Transcription [INTRO] ♫ Trenches by Pop Evil ♫ *Alex* Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator & trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being. Please welcome your host; Paul G. Markel. *Professor Paul* Hello and welcome back to Morning Mindset and I'm excited to record this particular episode of Morning Mindset because the topic suggestion came from one of you. Yes, that's right. I have a wife who also is my email sorting person, and she sourced through the info@morningmindsetpodcast.com box. - Yes, she sorts the inbox and lets me know. Now most of the stuff that comes in the inbox, I will have to admit to you is Chinese spam, but after we sort through all the Chinese spam every once in a while, we come across something that is actually valuable and that may have value to other people besides myself and the person who wrote the email. - That's a very, I want to let you guys know that if you want to ask a question, and you want the response on the radio or on the podcast when we choose questions or topics to discuss on our shows. What we have to do is we have to look at it, because we get a lot of questions, we have to look at it and say “Will this benefit only the person who asked the question, or will this topic or question probably benefit a wide variety or a wide range of people?” - Will other people benefit besides just the person who asked the question? For instance, you know, and I've used it before people say if you write me a letter saying, “Where can I go to get a hunting license in Oregon?” Alright, that's pretty specific, right? I mean I live in Eugene, Oregon. Where can I go to get a hunting license? If I answer that question on the podcast, very few people will actually get benefit from that. But if I ask if, for instance, this one today, it's titled “What to leave in and what to leave out” and thank you, Kevin, for the topic suggestion. - Kevin wrote us a letter and he said that, like the old Bob Seger song the lyric, from the old Bob Seger song and I believe it was the song was “Against the wind” and one of the things he said “What to leave in and what to leave out” or “what to leave out and what to leave in” I'm not sure which way he phrased it. But the fact that matter is, is Kevin said there's so much available to us. There's so much information. - Podcasts, YouTube channels, app television, radio shows, books, there is so much available to the consumer today, instantly. I mean it's available instantly thanks to the miracle of the internet and iTunes and all that jazz. How does a person know what to leave in and what to leave out? How do you know what to spend your time on? - Now I talked about this subject previously on my other show, people will ask things like “How do I know that the instructor that I'm going to take a class from is a good instructor?” or “How do I know that that school is a good school?” or “How will I know that this class is a valuable class?” and I say well the truth of the matter is, if you're a complete and total novice, if you have almost no education or experience in that field, you're not going to know. - Let's say you want to become an automobile mechanic and you want to go to a class or school or you know a seminar, or what have you about Transmissions or what have you. If you've never done that, you're not gonna know whether the class you just went to or the class you're going to is the best one available or the worst one available. - You're not going to know if the instructor is the best instructor or if he's just faking it to get by, because you have no basis for understanding. So what you're going to have to do, I mean and this is how humans have always been, but I think the confusion that the internet has created with all of these podcasts and blogs and YouTube channels and you know all the information that's available instantly on demand people become overwhelmed. - They don't know where to start. No, it's really no more difficult than this, the more education and experience that you have. The easier it will be to separate fact from bullcrap. Education is training, education can become from reading books education can come from watching videos. You say we have if I watch a video I'm not going to know. - Well, you don't just watch one, you don't just take one class and of course, experience is putting that education, that training, all that information that you've gathered that skill experiences putting it into practice. Yeah, I'm out here in Wyoming and every fall people come to Wyoming from outside of the state so they can hunt our big game. - They hunt the antelope and the mule deer they hunt the elk. Sometimes the Moose, and they come from other places and they're coming here to work with our guides, our hunting guides. Why do they work with our hunting guides? Why don't they just do it on their own? Well, they work with our hunting guides, because not only do our hunting guides have a lot of education, but they have a tremendous amount of experience so they can separate pretty much immediately the fact from the bull crap. - Experience, actually putting your education into practice. I was talking to someone recently who is a professional fishing guide, and he said that people would show up he'd been guiding, you know fishing trips for almost 30 years, but people would show up and they had read an article in a magazine, and so they believed that because they read an article in a magazine, that they knew what was going to happen and how it should happen. - They didn't have any experience. They just had some information, so if you want to be able to separate fact from bullcrap, and also in addition to separating the fact from the bullcrap to figure out how to invest your time wisely and effectively. You need to continuously gain education and continuously gain experience the more education and the more experience you have the better able you will be to discern what is worth your time, and that takes time. - I know you're like “No, I just want you to give me a simple, easy answer.” I can't give you a simple easy answer, the simple easy answer would be to listen to everything I say, read everything I write, that would be the simple answer. But I can't do that. I can't just give you a simple answer. So when it comes to “What to leave in and what to leave out”, the more experience you gain, the more education and information you have about that topic the easier it will be for you to decide to realize what is fact and what is bullcrap, what is a waste of your time, and what is a valuable use of your time? - I hope by this time we are, according to my show notes, this is episode 129. Man, we are cranking these out. I hope by the time you've gotten here, that you've made the decision that Morning Mindset is worth your time, it's worth leaving in. So thank you again to Kevin for that topic suggestion, and if you would like to, leave a topic suggestion, you can go to MorningMindsetPodcast.com and follow the instructions. You're smart people you're educated, you know what to do. Alright. I am your host Paul Markel, and I will talk to you again. Real soon. [OUTRO] ♫ Trenches by Pop Evil ♫ *Alex* Thank you for spending time with us today. To get show notes, submit a topic request, for more from your host Paul G. Markel, visit MorningMindsetPodcast.com. That’s MorningMindsetPodcast.com. Please leave a review of this podcast on your favorite podcast player, we appreciate your time & effort, and we look forward to reading your honest feedback.Read Less